Paul McCartney: 'I can twerk with the best of them!'

WHILE Miley Cyrus’s “twerking” incident sparked a debate about young female pop stars shedding clothes or putting on raunchy shows to get attention, Sir Paul McCartney says if it helps to sell records, good luck to them.

The 71-year-old performed at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios this week for Radio 2 and 6 Music in front of star-studded crowds including Rob Brydon, Chris Evans, Daily Express columnist Vanessa Feltz and Paul’s fashion designer daughter Stella.

And he said that Miley and chums aren’t doing anything that the likes of Madonna and Britney Spears haven’t done before.

Asked by host Jo Whiley what he thought of Miley’s recent antics, he joked: “Disgusting!” before adding “Of course I don’t mean it.

“I don’t understand why everyone’s saying, ‘Ooh she shouldn’t do that!’ It is nothing we haven’t seen before.

“I mean she’s a young girl and these days in that kind of field that she’s in there’s a lot of noise.

Miley Cyrus in one of her now signature poses [GETTY]

“So you’ve got to do something to get above the chatter and that’s what you’ll see a lot of the guys, a lot of the girls, doing. I don’t think it was bad at all. She looked good, I thought.”

He added: “I can twerk with the best of them!”

Day & Night was lucky enough to be in the audience for Sir Paul’s barnstorming performance of tracks from his just-released album New, as well as hits from Wings and The Beatles.

Highlights from the Maida Vale sessions are online at www.bbc.co.uk/6Music and will be available via the red button tonight from 11.20pm.

Britney Spears made headlines for being raunchy onstage at the beginning of her career [GETTY]